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Prohibitionist

noun
1.
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages.  Synonym: dry.





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"Prohibitionist" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the readers of The National Prohibitionist and to the world from behind the bars in that gloomy pile of buildings alongside the Drainage Canal, where Chicago every year spends some millions of dollars to protect herself from the criminal classes which she ...
— Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - War on the White Slave Trade • Various
... spiritual virtues of alcohol is not to be a Prohibitionist. For my own sake I want neither England nor America dry. Whether I want them dry for the sake of England and America I cannot quite decide. But if I ever do come to a decision, it will not be influenced by that other clich, which is often trotted out complacently, ...
— Not that it Matters • A. A. Milne


Words linked to "Prohibitionist" :   crusader, dry, social reformer, Carry Nation, reformer, meliorist, nation, Willard, reformist, Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, Carry Amelia Moore Nation, prohibition


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